Box-car.



H. A. CHRISTY.

BOX GAR.

APPLIGATION FILED JAN. 9, 1913.

Patented July 22, 1913.

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To .4f/l :le/lumi.. 11"! muy concern Be it known that l, HENRY A. Gennari?,

a citizen ot the'United States, residing' at` doors thereof by preventing ve iicles .and

othercars from striking against the doors, both in the closed and opened posi-tions thereof.

lt is an important object of the invention to adapt the same` to any 0i the several forms ot' box ears now in common use, and to permit of the convenient application of the invention to such cars Without making any changes or alterations in the construction thereof.

The invention has been embodied in the form of a `tender placed below the car door on the outside of the car and carried by the side sill. The fender extends lengthwise ot' the car across the doorway and at the Side "thereof tor a' distance at least equal to the,

width ot' the door, thereby to urotect the door when open as Awell as when closed.

With these ,and other objects in View, the presen-t invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts as will he hereinafter more fullydescrihed, shown in the drawings and particularly pointed out in the appended claim, it being` understood that changes in the form, proportion, sizeA and minor details may he made within the scope of the claim, without departing troni the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention. i

In the drawings -Figure l is a perspective view of a portion ot' a box oar equipped with the fender of the present invention. Figs. 2, 3, ll, 5, G, and 7 are enlarged detail cross-sectional views taken through the Ytendea' and the adjacent side Sill and show ing;l different applications of the fender in accordance with different forms of side sills and arrangements of car floors. Fig. El is a detail plan section showing the invention applied where two doors are used.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parte in each of the several figures of the drawings.

ln Fig. l of the dra Sings, l designates the side wall of any ordinary or preferred :term ot' hoi; car, 'while in Figs. 2, 3 and Il, i

2 d ".gnates an oriflinary wooden eide sill, on n' .ich .is laid the door 3 oi the car 1n the usual way. In Figi-1. 'l and 2, 4C desig naties any common or preferred i'orin ot door.

'llhe parte thus 'far shown and described,

are common and well known and need no zt'urther description. u

lin carrying out this invention, I providey a tend-er 5 which is preferably a piece of.

tiinher `oi. suitable proportions secured to the outer side of the car below the door and extending the full length of thedoorway and also a '2l-ie side thereof for ai distance equal to at least the width of the door. In other words, the fender extends throughout th length of the path ot' movement of the sl.-. ng door. As heet shown in liigs. 2, 3 and. Ll, this fender is secured by means of holte, one oit' which is shown at (j, ext-ending throingh the fender and thesill. By preference, the vertical thickness of the tender is the aine as that ot' the side sill, but ofcourse this proportion may he varied under different circumstances without departing from this invention. rlhc exterior of the fender may be left plain or 'lt-may loe protected loyV a metal strip or plate 7 extending the `l'ull length of the fender on the outer verticalrlfhe ends of the yfender arehevcled or rounded as best' shown in Figs. j l and 8 so as to avoid, abrupt shoulders at :tace thereof.

the ends of the fender. The horizontal thickness of the fender should loe at least equal to the greatest lateral external proj ection of any portion of the door, its fastening-s or'its mounting, so that when a vehicle hache .up against the fender, said vehicle will not come into contact with the door or any part of its mountine. VShould two cars on different tracks come close enough to contact with one another, the tender of one will strike the tender of the other, or the fender of one will strike the other car in a line `wilhqfdie side sill thereof, hecause the underfr'iining of all cars are the standard heights, and consequently the doors oi both cars would be protected by the fender.

The present invention is intended to protect outside doors and is ot' course entirely independent of any mounting of the door, .i

and, therefore, it may be applied to ycars' in the construction and mounting of the i for the top of the'door.

door. However, I., contemplate utilizing the fender as a support for the door, so that the In the embodiment shown` in Fig. 2, the floor 3 of the car terminates flush with the outer face of the side sill2, in which arrangement the top of the track S is preterably Hush with the top of the tloor, whereby the bottom edge of the door travels be- Ytween the. upstanding part of the .tr-.ick S and the floor, thereby sealing the lower edge of the doorway. In this arrangement the track being flush with the floor of the car offers no 'obstruction in loading and unloadv. ing the car. A

. In the embodiment shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the floor 3 ot the car is extended out acrossthe fender, with which arrangement the track S is still supported by the fender, although it rests directly upon that portion of the floor which overlaps the fender. l

Under some conditions, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings,'the vertical thickness of the fender may exceed that of the sill, with the top of the fender iush with the top of the car floor 3.

Where a metal I-beam side-sill 9 is used, as in Fig. 5, the fender 5 is shaped and pro-A portioned to fill the outer side of the Ibe am and project asuitable distance beyond the same, the fender being secured to the I-beam side sill by. a bolt G, as hereinbefoi'e de.

scribed, the track 8, being supported upon that pai-.tof the fender which projects laterally beyond the flanges of the I-beam.

As shown in Fig. 7,`in applying the fender to a car having an I-beam and a wooden filler beam 10 to which the sheathing o-rdinarily nailed, the fender 5 is'merely bolted throughI the filler 10 and the I-beam 9.-

Fig. 6 shows a common car construction wherein the side sill 11 is in the form of a. channel iron, on the upper flange of which is the usual woodenstrip or beam to which theslieathing oi the ear is connected. In applying the invention to this construction the fender 5 is bolted to the wooden strip or bar 12.

It will of course be understood that when applied to side sills such as c:ho\\n in Figs.

.5, v6 and 7, the fender may have an); :if the arrangements ,shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4.

lVhere the doorway is large, and two sliding'doors 13 and 14 are employed, as shown in Fig. 8, the fender will project at opposite sides of the doorway a distance sui'icient Vto protect both doors in their open positions as well Aas in their closed positions, the track 8 extending as far as necessary ,to accommodate the sliding of the doors to either position.

Vhat is claimed isz A box car having a side doorway and a slidable door therefor, a door fender secured to the outer face of the side sill and extending laterally outward beyond the `side of the car and beyond the plane of the door and anyof the door monntings, said fender `extending across thewidth of the, doorway and beyond one side thereof for a distanceat least equal to the lwidth of the door, the ends of the fender being beveled transversely so 4as to incline toward the car body and toward the respective ends of the car, a-nd guide-means on the fender and back of the front face thereof, the door bemg slidably guided at its bottom by saidiineans, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I hereby atlix my signature 1n presence ot two witnesses.

2 l HENRY A. CHRISTY. Witnesses: 'f

i Ilumn-m'r S. Snnrann,

Gamm -l`. MILANs.

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